‘Black-hole hunting machine:’ A decade of breakthroughs at Eastern WA observatory

LIGO observatory near Richland confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, it also has proven one of Hawking’s theorems.

In a race back to the moon, U.S. and China see a fast-approaching finish line

The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 ...

Mapping out the heliosphere, Earth's protective bubble

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.

From terraced hills to collapsed soufflés, scientists decode Venus's mysterious surface

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...
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How extinction of dinosaurs reshaped earth’s entire landscape

Dinosaurs' extinction "re-engineered" Earth's surface, according to new research. The reptiles had such an "immense" impact on the planet that their sudden exit led to wide-scale changes in landscapes ...
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Mars once had an atmosphere that was thicker than Earth's today

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a pressure three times that on Earth ...
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Satellite data shows New York City is still sinking — and so are many big US cities

Big parts of New York City are sinking at different rates. This was first reported in 2023, when researchers theorized that the weight of skyscrapers may have a role to play. Now, a series of studies ...